Close shave with a tree-hugger..

[Lostboy]

So,

I was down in Wales this weekend for The Hillrally. Travelling out to Bala on the Sunday morning and as I was passing through Llangwolen (sp?) I picked up a hitchhiker.

It turned out he was a committed anti-everything activist travelling under the disguise of being a 40-something bus conductor.

He spent the entire journey telling me about his antics at the G8 conference and how fuel should be rationed...

I spent the entire journey thinking "For gods sake, DONT tell him your here for an off-road rally..."

Fortunately, he was too wrapped up in his own rhetoric to really care about other people - but he did at one point say "I take it this is running on bio-diesel" and I stammered "Er, no, chip fat with sodium hydroxide in it..." Yeah - sure, with ordinary diesel being a penny under a quid in that neck of the woods, you can expect a few chip-shops to get ram-raided soon!

So I dropped him in Bala, he thought I was being really generous taking him right to the very door that he was going to, but really I was wanting to make sure that he was WELL AWAY from the service park!

The worst thing was - I only stopped to pick him up because he was wearing a flouresent tabbard - I thought he was a displaced marshall!!!

[Xtremeteam]

now: i no a better story than that which happened to my mate,he stoped to pick up a hitchhiker who was carrying a green fuel can,few miles down the road the "hitchhiker" told my mate that he hadnt really run out of petrol & was actulally on his way to visit some 1 & at that produced a 8inch hunting knife  :shock: ,needless to say he was droped off sharpish & the polis informed,


so back to the topic how on earth did u manage to keep calm & not use ur sig on the poor defensless missinformed dissaloutioned <SP> chap

[Xtremeteam]

Er, no, chip fat with sodium hydroxide in it

carfull as the C&E folk visit  :lol:

[beast5680]

whats sodium hydroxide then? sounds like a hair colourant :?

[Lostboy]

whats sodium hydroxide then? sounds like a hair colourant :?

Its a nasty chemical that rots holes in your trousers - it certainly would bleach your hair, as it lay in the plughole!  :P

[Manicminer]

You were too polite.
I would have stood on my brakes and told him if he was that committed then he *should* walk. All 30 miles of it.

p.s Did you get his address so that I can go and have a word with him? :lol:

[Lostboy]

if he was that committed then he *should* walk. All 30 miles of it.

Yeah - he didn't seem to be too concerned about taking a lift from a 4x4... Guess thats the thing about politics, it's "do as I say, not as I do". He was from London, in Wales to attend court to try and get access to his children. Apparently his ex felt that he was a 'bad influence'...